Brazil sets another record for daily Covid-19 deaths

Figures show a new high of 1,262 fatalities in the previous 24 hours. FMTNews Covid19 Brazil

Emergency workers carry a suspected Covid-19 patient on a hammock in Amazonas, Brazil on Monday.

The figures come as some Brazilian states began to emerge from weeks of economically-stifling quarantine measures despite warnings from the WHO and epidemiologists. Experts estimate the real number of infections could be up to 15 times higher than official figures, given relatively little testing across the vast country of 210 million.

“In the current situation, relaxing the measures is adding gasoline to the fire,” Rafael Galliez, an infections expert at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, told AFP.

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